I had a customer set up an autoresponder on their domain and set it to start a few hours later. They sent a test message and received an auto response before the autoresponder was supposed to start. I set up a test account on their domain and had the same problem. This problem does not appear to happen on other domains.
The autoresponder is stored in the file: /var/vmail/mailfilters/domain.tld/user/.autoresponder You should try to compare one with a working date setting with the one that don't works.
Non-working: Code: `test -f /var/vmail/mailfilters/$HOST/$USER/.vacation.msg && exit 1 || exit 0` if ($RETURNCODE==1) { { if (!/^List-Unsubscribe:.*/:h ) { if (!/^X-Spam-Flag: YES/:h ) { NOW=time if (1461773400 lt $NOW && 1461888000 gt $NOW) { RESPOND="/var/vmail/mailfilters/$HOST/$USER/.vacation.msg" RESPONDDB="/var/vmail/mailfilters/$HOST/$USER/.vacation.lst" # The following must be one contiguous line cc "| mailbot -t $RESPOND -d $RESPONDDB -c 'UTF-8' -D 1 \ -A 'From: $RECIPIENT' -s 'Auto Response: from $RECIPIENT' \ /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -f ''" } } } } } Working: Code: `test -f /var/vmail/mailfilters/$HOST/$USER/.vacation.msg && exit 1 || exit 0` if ($RETURNCODE==1) { { if (!/^List-Unsubscribe:.*/:h ) { if (!/^X-Spam-Flag: YES/:h ) { NOW=time if (1461765900 lt $NOW && 1461888000 gt $NOW) { RESPOND="/var/vmail/mailfilters/$HOST/$USER/.vacation.msg" RESPONDDB="/var/vmail/mailfilters/$HOST/$USER/.vacation.lst" # The following must be one contiguous line cc "| mailbot -t $RESPOND -d $RESPONDDB -c 'UTF-8' -D 1 \ -A 'From: $RECIPIENT' -s 'Auto Response: from $RECIPIENT' \ /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -f ''" } } } } }
Yikes, the working one just sent me any auto-reply. Earlier today it did not. I'll have to find one that is working and post again.
So it turns out that none of the domains work. It takes a minute to create the . files (I guess that's why it tells you to wait a minute ) and I tried too fast earlier today.
Did you check the system time of your server (use the "date" command)? Often the system tie of the server is not your local time zone, but courier uses the date and time of the system for the begin and end date. This time difference between local and system time can lead to the impression that the autoresponder activates a few hours too late or too early, the solution in this case is to set system time to your local time zone.
Then I've no idea why it is not working, maybe the maildrop version does not understand the time limitation. As far as I can see, the maildrop filter files look fine syntactically.
